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The 14th New Jersey monument is a memorial monument located on the Monocacy battlefield in Frederick, Maryland, United States.It stands to honor the men of the volunteer force that protected the Monocacy Junction during the crucial winter of 1863-1864.
In 1928, Glenn Worthington, the owner of a large portion of the northern segment of the battlefield, petitioned Congress to create a National Military Park at Monocacy. Though the bill passed in 1934, the battlefield languished for nearly 50 years before Congress appropriated funds for land acquisition. Once funds were secured, 1,587 acres (6 ...
The 14th New Jersey Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Their most notable engagement was the Battle of Monocacy , where the unit sustained heavy casualties halting a Confederate advance.
Five monuments were erected at the site, including tributes to Union troops from New Jersey, Vermont, and Pennsylvania, as well as to the Confederate force who fought in the battle. [44] [45] The American Battlefield Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved 445 acres of the Monocacy battlefield as of mid-2023. [46]
The Civil War Trust's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails.
Will NJ's Revolutionary War sites be ready for the nation's 250th anniversary? In the fall of 2022, Gov. Phil Murphy announced the state would spend $25 million in American Rescue Plan funds to ...
This category is for national military parks, and similar designations of battlefields in the United States, managed by the National Park Service. As with all historic areas in the National Park System, these battle sites are automatically listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
National Military Park, National Battlefield, National Battlefield Park, ... Monocacy: Moores Creek: North Carolina NB June 2, 1926: 87.75 acres (0.4 km 2 ...